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BetterSense
January 6th, 2009, 05:42 AM
I run hardy heron on my laptop. I wished to remove the graphical login so I removed gdm. Now I can boot without graphics, and run startx when I wish to start x. I like this behavior. However it takes a very long time, I believe longer than using graphical login, to start gnome. It takes 45 seconds between running startx and getting a fully logged-in desktop.

1. how can I figure out what is taking so long and fix it

2. what if I want to boot KDE instead, which I have installed but almost never use(I don't know how to make startx boot kde instead)